I seriously can’t stand these junior developers who treat every tiny error like a national emergency. The moment something breaks, they sprint to a senior or drop a screenshot in the group chat without even reading the first line of the stack trace. It’s wild. When I was at their stage, I used to sit with an error for hours, sometimes days, poking at it from every angle, searching, reading docs, trying things, breaking things, rebuilding the project twice because maybe the universe just needed a reset. That’s how you build intuition. That’s how you grow.
The funniest part? They act like the internet doesn’t exist. Docs? Never heard of them. Stack Overflow? Apparently a myth from ancient times. Even AI is right there, literally begging to help, but somehow the default response is: “bhaiya error aa gaya, dekhlo.” It’s not even about being a hero and solving everything yourself. it’s about respecting the craft. Respecting the people around you. Seniors aren’t Google. They’re not a walking Stack Overflow clone with free time to babysit your missing comma.
I don’t get why some people treat debugging like a personal insult. As if the moment something goes wrong, it’s proof that they suck and someone else needs to come pat their head and fix it. Debugging is half the job. Half of engineering is staring at error messages and slowly negotiating with your own sanity until the code finally behaves. If you avoid that part, you never develop the instincts that make you a real dev.
And the worst part is when they skip the basics. They don’t isolate the issue, don’t try to reproduce it, don’t check what they changed five minutes ago. They don’t even read the error. They just panic. They just want someone else to tell them the answer as fast as possible so they can paste it, pretend they understand it, and move on without learning anything.
Meanwhile seniors have their own fires to put out. They’re juggling deployments, code reviews, deadlines, and their own bugs. and junior devs casually drop in like, “bro, help.” Some juniors are even busy with their own tasks. Time is expensive. Attention is expensive. Running to AI is fine, that costs no one anything. But running to a human for every hiccup? That’s just straight-up disrespectful.
This isn’t about gatekeeping or flexing. It’s about maturity. Writing code is easy. Searching for answers is easy. What takes maturity is the willingness to sit with your mistakes, poke at them, dig into the logs, question your assumptions, and slowly unravel the mess you made. The uncomfortable truth is: if you keep running from the discomfort, you’ll always be stuck at the same level.
Growing as a developer is not some magical jump. It’s built from tiny moments where you choose to think instead of panic, read instead of whine, experiment instead of complain. Debugging is not punishment. Debugging is training. And if you always outsource that part, you’re basically outsourcing your future self.
So yeah, stop behaving childish. Stop treating every error like a dead end. Slow down, breathe, investigate, try things, break things intentionally, learn why things fail. Ask for help when it’s truly needed, not when you’re just feeling lazy or scared. Be a developer, not a notification.
This industry rewards people who can think. Errors are invitations to think. If you keep running from them, you’ll never cross the threshold from junior to actual engineer. Debug with some dignity. That's where the real growth lives.
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